
MEMORIALS TO 

RpOSEVELT 



--s^UC&fc^- 







He was my friend, and the friend of fill humanity. He 
opened my eyes, and put hope in my heart, as no other living 
man had ever done before. Being an ignorant man — without 
even a common school education — / sought only for truth, and, 
by heaven, I found it in him. 

A (Contributor in Colorado. 



MEMORIALS TO 
ROOSEVELT 

A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS 



"One flag, the oAmerican flag; one language, 
the language of the Declaration of Independence ; 
one loyalty, loyalty to the ^American people" 



ROOSEVELT PERMANENT MEMORIAL 
NATIONAL COMMITTEE 

WILLIAM BOVCE THOMPSON, Chairman 
One Madison Avenue New York 



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Copyright, 1919 

by 

ROOSEVELT PERMANENT MEMORIAL 

NATIONAL COMMITTEE 



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Cover Design by C. B. Falls 

Frontispiece by Franklin Booth, rtprintea 

by courtesy of Collier* i Weekly 

MAR 24 1919 



The Roosevelt Memorial 



The Roosevelt Memorial 

{A Plea for Beauty) 

How shall we spread like wings across the land 
The shadow of your gracious memory, 
Which is not shadow indeed, but morning cloud, 
Shot through with radiance of the coming day? 
How shall we send that flame upon its way, 
That through the changes of the time to be 
All men may understand? 

How shall we grave your dear immortal name 

So high on all the doorways of the world 

That every heart in all the passing throng 

Shall tremble with the impulse of a song? 

We shall not let you die ! Your word shall be 

Re-vitalized beyond forgetfulness ; 

Gifted anew with power to bless, 

Year after year the same. 

Your heart was greater than its best desire; 

And all the hearts of men were warmed to life 

By that unfailing fire. 

Knight and crusader every day and hour, 

What shall make clear the sources of your power? 

What cunningly fair memorial shall we bring 

To make your memory sing, 

Your thought to rise and flower with every Spring? 

There is one warder by the gates of time, 

One bloom, that knows an immemorial prime. 

Good gifts shall fall away, 

And noblest uses reach their final day; 

No knowledge we may teach shall stand forever. 

There is in all the world one priceless thing, 



4 The Roosevelt M e m o r i a I 

One elemental joy, 

That time itself is helpless to destroy ; 

One flower of all earth's tombs ; one altar light 

That burns from day to day, from night to night ; 

And that one flame is Beauty — 

One delight 

That perishes never. 

Supreme through all her changes, Beauty stands, 
Guarding our great remembrances. With her 
No holy dream shall die. And if dark hands 
Fling her dear works to ruin, still her soul 
Shall give the ruin life, — and years shall roll 
In splendor over it; and men shall see 
Therein a deeper glory and mystery. 

In France, before her loveliest ruined shrine, 
The Maid still rides — on those mad ravishers 
Undying Beauty looks with scorn divine. 
The victory still is hers. 

Far in the tranquil East, the Taj Mahal 

Lies like a carven lily on the green, 

Keeping alive a dream of that poor queen, 

Snatched from oblivion as the centuries fall. 

And in the New World, after groping years, 

Beauty at last makes jewels of our tears ; 

And for our mightiest we have raised to view 

Her lordly temples. Clear against the blue, 

A white shaft rises, lofty and austere, 

Pure symbol of the soul of Washington ; 

And Lincoln shall be shrined in majesty. 

Thus far we have wrought, that ages might be won. 

Like these, you have no need 

Of the white fire of sculpture, for your fame; 

Yet it is fitting that your golden name 

Should be thus linked with Beauty. ; 



T h e Roosevelt Memorial 5 

Then he your monument in loveliest guise, 

Oh, soul of grace and fire! 

And let a storm of music fall and rise, 

Voicing the passion of our lost desire, 

Transfixed in white enduring harmony 

Long as the world shall be. 

Build we our homes of welfare in your name; 

Be the earth's highways yours. But high above, 

Beauty herself must lift her torch of flame. 

Your true memorial must be wrought 

Only by those 

Whose tender and unerring skill is brought 

Straight from the Heart that fashioned the red rose. 

So, they who fare upon the crowded ways, 

All through the coming days, 

Shall see, and know your thought, your work, your love, 

And waken to your praise. 

Marion Couthouy Smith. 



Foreword 



Foreword 

npWENTY-FOUR HOURS had not elapsed after the 
**■ passing of Theodore Roosevelt out of the company of the 
millions who had loved and followed him, before letters began 
to flow into newspaper offices all over the country, calling for 
a memorial. Suggestions countless in number and widely 
varying in character came from the great American's friends 
of high and low estate. They called for statues, for parks, 
for museums, for community houses, for hospitals; most of 
all they called emphatically for some foundation, vaguely dis- 
cerned, that would carry on into the lives of generations to 
come the splendid spirit that had lighted and warmed the lives 
of Theodore Roosevelt's contemporaries. 

When the Roosevelt Permanent Memorial National Com- 
mittee, appointed by Chairman Will H. Hays under a resolu- 
tion of the Republican National Committee, began its work 
with a public call for further proposals, the reply was prompt 
and generous. The most interesting of these projects, together 
with a number that first appeared in the New York Tribune 
and other newspapers, have been collected in this volume for 
the information of those to whom the question of a memorial 
to Theodore Roosevelt is a matter of deep, personal interest — 
the members of the Memorial Committee, first of all, since 
on them rests the responsibility of deciding what form the 
people's memorial to its beloved leader shall take. For them 
mainly this volume has been prepared and to them it is 
submitted, in no sense as an index of possible memorials but 



° Foreword 

rather as a spur to the imagination, a signpost pointing toward 
high places only partially explored. 

Roosevelt Permanent Memorial 
National Committee, 

William Boycc Thompson, Chairman. 

One Madison Avenue, 
New York City, March 1, 1919. 



Tabic of Contents 



Table of Contents 

1. Americanization 11 

2. Conservation of Wild Life 21 

3. A Seaside Park at Ouster Bay 23 

4. A Cemetery in France 24 

5. General Educational Projects 26 

6. Agricultural Endowment Fund 34 

7. Monuments 36 

8. Newspapers 47 

9. Homes for Children 49 

10. Hospitals 50 

1 1 . Museums 52 

12. Clubs 54 

13. Highways, Parks «S: Cities 56 

1 4. Trees 61 

15. A National Holiday 62 



Americanization 



I. 
American ization 

A home for instruction in Americanism in each center of our 

community. 

Allen G. Newman. 



A Roosevelt School of Politics to train young men and 
women for positions of public trust and at the same time carry 
on the work to which Theodore Roosevelt devoted his own 
life: the teaching of Americanism and the fundamental prin- 
ciples of democracy. 

Mabel M. Stevens. 



A school for the propagation of Roosevelt Americanism and 
the inculcation of the principles of patriotism and of good and 
useful citizenship to help our people and those from over the 
seas who may become a part of U3 to live the life that he lived 
and advocated, and follow in the path of civic righteousness 
blazed by him. 

David H. Knott, 
Sheriff New York County. 



An Order of Better Americans for the Americanization of 
our foreign element, either present or future. This not 
through costly colleges, but in simple neighborhood classrooms, 
where the first essential would be the teaching of our language. 
After that, a lucid grounding in our elementary laws, followed 
by suffrage lore and the whole duty of citizens. 

M. M. W. 



12 Americanization 

A national educational movement for Americanization: to 
promote and maintain evening schools in every city, town, vil- 
lage and hamlet in the United States wherever there are aliens, 
hyphenated Americans or half-baked Americans. These schools 
should be held in connection with public schools, private schools, 
patriotic societies and churches and should have the backing 
of the government. Attendance should be obligator}' on all 
foreigners and should be a requisite for naturalization. 

Rev. Stefano L. Testa. 



The suggestion has been made that a fund be raised for the 
erection and endowment of a college or a department in some 
existing college for instruction in those special branches deemed 
necessary for an efficient preparation for public service, includ- 
ing those ethical ideals on which Theodore Roosevelt laid such 
stress, both by his words and his deeds, in his public life. If 
this could be done in such a way as not only to memorialize 
Theodore Roosevelt, but to reproduce the influence of his life 
and character, it would seem to be the kind of memorial which 

would most appeal to him. 

Lyman Abbott, 

Editor of the Outlook. 



A fund of not less than five or ten million dollars to be used 
as the basis for a "foundation," organized along lines somewhat 
similar to those upon which the Rockefeller Foundation is 
organized, the income from the fund, or foundation, to be used 
for the carrying on of work calculated to Americanize citizens 
of foreign birth. Such work would undoubtedly include large 
educational plans, scholarships, etc., and would probably also 
take account of, and attempt to remedy, unfortunate housing 
conditions amongst our foreign-born poor. 

Dr. Julia Ross Low. 
Julian Street. 



7 w e r i c anizati o n 



Unite two movements already having wide popular support — 
universal training and Americanization (both of which Colonel 
Roosevelt endorsed) — under a legal requirement that prelimi- 
nary to and as a condition of the right of suffrage, every boy 
and girl must obtain a civil degree, to be called the Roosevelt 
Degree of Citizenship ; this degree to cover a reasonable amount 
of knowledge of history and civics in addition to a period of 
military training for the boy, and home economics, first aid, etc., 
for the girl. Such a memorial would be not only of national 
but of international benefit in its ultimate results, would settle 
forever the question of the illiterate voter who has been the 
handy tool of our unprincipled politicians, and would debar 
those who were not willing to take this degree as a preparation 
for the protection of our institutions from having any voice in 
the government. 

Mary Breese Sharpe. 



A Roosevelt Americanization Society, this society to obtain 
funds through popular subscription, the money thus secured to 
be spent on the real Americanization of foreigners in America ; 
furthering their education in English and adding to their 
knowledge of American ways of living and American ideals. 

The proposed training should be given by sensible and under- 
standing Americans of the Roosevelt type — people who would 
be friendly and honest and real. 

In connection with this scheme there might be a large confer- 
ence building erected in New York, Washington or Chicago 
where there could be at stated times American congresses in 
which immigrants would have a voice and where they might 
explain their difficulties and needs. 

M. P. Flack. 



The question of assimilating our younger population is 
without doubt one of the most pressing of all our problems. 



14 Americanization 

It is my conviction that this is the time for radical action, 
and in this conviction I present the following plan: 

First, that Congress appropriate a suitable fund which shall 
be distributed through the Department of the Interior and the 
numerous colleges and universities in the form of scholarships. 

Second, that these scholarships shall be accorded to properly 
qualified young men and women of foreign birth or foreign 
blood who desire a college education, and that each scholarship 
shall be sufficient to provide tuition and living expenses for the 
designated student. 

Third, that no more than a stated maximum number of 
students shall be assigned to any one institution, and that no 
institution shall be listed as a beneficiary of these scholarships 
which is located in a town of more than twenty-five thousand 
inhabitants, and that this appropriation shall be a part of the 
Roosevelt Memorial, and shall be known as "The Roosevelt 
Memorial National Scholarship Fund." 

The object of these scholarships is to take from the crowded 
foreign populated centers of our eastern cities representatives 
of the young men and women of Russian, Polish, Jewish, or 
other alien parentage who desire to become Americans, and 
who would find the life of a university in the Middle West 
an inspiration to a truer and more understanding patriotism. 

Max E. Ravage. 



Colonel Roosevelt himself would wish any memorial of him 
to be not merely a record of work accomplished, but something 
which would tend to continue his work although he himself is 
absent. 

If there is any one specific idea which stands out pre- 
eminently from all his work and writings it would be service 
to his country and his fellow-citizens and loyalty to the gov- 
ernment which he served. We all are familiar with his 
opinion of hyphenated Americanism, and we all know that his 



Americanization 15 

one desire was to make this country a unified, loyal, patriotic 
nation. My suggestion therefore would be that at least some 
attention of the Committee should be given towards the educa- 
tion of foreign-born residents in the ideals and standards of 
Americanism; not only instruction in the English language, 
but instruction in the fundamental principles which we like to 
think are pre-eminently American. Of course, any work so 
undertaken should be absolutely free from any suspicion of 
political or sectarian prejudice. Such of his writings as were 
purely controversial and affecting issues which have either been 
settled or which do not affect the soul of the nation should 
be eliminated. But his views of Americanism and the 
spiritual and material advancement of the country should be 
kept alive and instilled in all people, whether foreign-born or 
native. I think that an organization could be planned which 
would co-operate with existing educational and philanthropic 
organizations throughout the United States, and which, al- 
though costing very little money, could enlist the co-operation 
of all the master minds of the country who knew and admired 
the Colonel. 

Regis H. Post, 
Governor of Porto Rico, 1907-1909. 



(1) A Roosevelt Training School of Patriotism (or of 
Citizenship) to be established in or near some central city, 
north of the hot belt of Washington, south of the cold belt of 
which the axis is Albany — that is in the best climatic working 
conditions. The object of the institution to be the training of 
teachers of government and politics from grade teachers up to 
college professors. The reason for putting this project forward 
is that the manifest defect in all efforts to Americanize the 
adult population and to nationalize the children in the schools 
is the terrible lack of teachers trained for that job. The schools 
in general are eager for such instruction; they will provide 



16 Americanization 



the school time, space, apparatus and reading matter. They 
need skilled direction. Such an institution would not rival 
any of the present colleges or normal schools. Presumably 
students or graduates from other institutions would come there 
for special training. If the buildings were limited, as they 
might perfectly well be, to the lecture halls and libraries, a large 
part of the fund could become an endowment for salaries and 
fellowships. 

(2) The second suggestion is that a system of Roosevelt 
International Fellowships be founded. This requires little in 
the way of overhead expense, and almost nothing for premises. 
The purpose should be to give promising young men and 
women the opportunity of a year (possibly two years) to spend 
in an educational journey around the world, with a stipend 
sufficient for the necessary expense (say $1,200 to $1,500 per 
year, $2,500 for two years). It should be the duty of these 
children students to make themselves familiar with the condi- 
tions, the spirit and the government of the countries through 
which they went. There might very well be agencies of the 
institution in the various capitals of the world, who should 
give aid and advice. The whole thing is to make Americans 
stronger and more vigorous, because of their touch with and 
knowledge of the institutions of the rest of the world. The 
whole thing should be entirely disconnected from any propa- 
ganda for peace or international welfare. Roosevelt was a 
conspicuous traveler, who came home more American then he 
went away. That is what ought to be expected from these 
young people. 

Albert Bushnell Hart, 
Professor of Government, Harvard University. 



A Roosevelt American Foundation, with a perpetual board 
of trustees to be made up of men and women of the most 
sterling and unadulterated Americanism of the Roosevelt type. 



Americanization 



Under the control of this Central Foundation, establish in all 
the principal cities, especially among the foreign population 
and the factory workers, Roosevelt Houses for the people, to 
be open day and evening, in which shall be schools, libraries, 
gymnasiums, lecture halls, and museums for the teaching of 
Americanism, the American language, biography of great 
Americans, business ideals and methods, natural sciences, 
physical culture and health, and the great opportunities for 
self-advancement by the methods employed by Theodore 
Roosevelt himself. 

These Roosevelt Houses, to succeed, must be kept wholly 
free from any atmosphere of exclusiveness or highbrowism. 
They must be as genial, hearty, whole-souled, and friendly 
as Roosevelt was himself, but they must be kept rigidly, and 
faithfully true to the genuine spirit of Roosevelt, and by no 
possible neglect or mismanagement be allowed to drift into 
the control of other influences. At all times, and forever, 
their management and organization of workers would be under 
The Roosevelt American Foundation. 

Through these Roosevelt Houses, scattered in the great 
centers of population, among the foreigners and newly made 
citizens, and even in places where native born citizens have not 
had the full advantages necessary to make them 100 per cent 
Americans, the rapidly spreading diseases of Bolshevism and 
anarchy would be combated and checked. In these Roosevelt 
Houses would be the pure wells of the living water of American- 
ism for the health of the Nation. In them also would burn, 
unquenched, the flaming torch of the truth and loyalty which 
Theodore Roosevelt left to us to keep. In them the One 
Flag he loved supremely would be planted in the hearts of 
hundreds of thousands of new citizens as the flag of their 
undivided allegiance ; and out of these Roosevelt Houses — the 
real melting pots of the Nation — would be coming, year after 
year, countless loyal American citizens ready to defend that 
flag with their lives. 

Eugene Thwing. 



18 Americanization 

"The New York Children's Aid Society enthusiastically 
endorses Mr. Thwing's proposal as printed in the New York 
'Times' and will be glad to co-operate with the Roosevelt 
Memorial Committee and if desired we shall be willing to 
assume the task of managing these Roosevelt Houses under the 
supervision of the Foundation. We believe its achievements 
show that the Children's Aid Society is better fitted to maintain 
the genial, whole-souled, friendly, non-sectarian, non-racial 
spirit of Theodore Roosevelt than any other body of experts 
in social welfare work." 

The Children's Aid Society, 

C. Loring Brace. Secretary. 



1. A memorial building or group of buildings representing the 

various states, situated in the neighborhood of New York, 
for 

a. An educational institution, having as its main ob- 

jective the teaching of citizenship. 

b. A co-ordinating force for all national organizations 

dealing with youth ; provisions to be made for a 
convention hall, conference rooms, a House and 
Senate Chamber, etc. 

2. A Roosevelt Foundation to further the cause of Ameri- 

canism : 

a. Scholarships for representatives from both the school 

and from industry, ages to include from 15 to 18 
years ; the number from each state to correspond 
to the number of Senators and representatives at 
Washington, representing their respective states. 
Scholarship plans to be worked out on the Cecil 
Rhodes plan. 

b. An endowment for the furtherance of these ideals 

through existing agencies having to do with the 
promulgation of high ideals of character and 



Americanization 



citizenship. This might mean the training oi 

teachers to teach this in the schools. 
3. To carry out the above would take a fund of at least 10 to 
15 millions. 

J. A. Van Dis, 
International Y. M. C. A. 



The purpose of any memorial to Colonel Roosevelt should 
be to perpetuate in American public life the ideals and prin- 
ciples of Theodore Roosevelt and to carry to fruition his life- 
long struggle for sound Americanism and intelligent citizen- 
ship. 

The following means to attain this are proposed : 

1. Roosevelt Scholarships as suggested by Max Ravage, in 
the New York "Times," to be awarded to promising young 
men and women of foreign parents living in any of the great 
cities of the country; these scholarships to provide from three 
to four years' education in some typical American college 
situated between the Alleghanies and the Rockies, in towns of 
not more than 25,000 inhabitants, by means of an annual loan 
of not more than $750.00, to be augmented by special grants 
of the college to which the student may be assigned, such as 
free lodging and free tuition. 

For these scholarships a fund of $5,000,000.00 should be 
collected. The income would at the start provide for over 60 
students at a time, and later, when the loans began to be repaid, 
for many more. There should be an arrangement by which 
holders of scholarships who did not show continued promise of 
real achievement might be eliminated in favor of others who did. 

2. Roosevelt Foundation for the teaching of Americanism 
and citizenship. Professorships to be created in forty of the 
leading American universities for the training of teachers of 
Americanism and citizenship in those colleges among which the 
holders of scholarships were to be distributed, as well as in 



20 Americanization 

normal and secondary schools. A fund of $5,000,000.00 to 
be devoted to this Foundation. The income would provide 
forty professorships at the present maximum university salary. 

3. Supervisory and Auxiliary Organization, to be known as 
"The Roosevelt League for Straight Americanism." A nation- 
wide organization with state and local branches, under the 
direction of a National Board of Governors, consisting of the 
forty or fifty men who were closest to Colonel Roosevelt in 
life; and State Executive Committees consisting of loyal sup- 
porters of Roosevelt's political ideals and principles. 

The business of the Board of Governors to be to make certain 
that the teaching under the Roosevelt Foundation should not 
deviate from the known principles of Theodore Roosevelt; to 
direct the activities of the organization ; and to publish a weekly 
bulletin or magazine to be called "The Roosevelt Torchbearer." 

The business of each local branch to be to provide necessary 
funds (about $1,000.00 yearly) for the teaching of Americanism 
and citizenship in the local high school by some teacher trained 
in college or in some normal school under the Roosevelt 
Foundation. 

Funds 

Interest on an endowment of $500,000.00, to be augmented 
by annual membership fees of one dollar. 

National Headquarters 

To be located at the Roosevelt House, 28 E. 20th Street, 
New York City. 

Total fund needed $10,500,000.00. 

— Anonymous. 



Conservation of Wild Life 21 

II. 

Conservation of IVild Life 

It is proposed to establish at Washington an institution to be 
known as "The Roosevelt Foundation for the Conservation of 
Wild Life," the object of which shall be the conservation of 
wild life, mainly in America but secondarily in other parts of 
the world. The wild life to be thus conserved being princi- 
pally the native bird and mammal faunas. 

The Foundation should be governed by a Board of Trustees 
under whom a Director would have administrative control of 
its activities. The expenses of the organization should be borne 
by income from the trust, or foundation, funds. The activi- 
ties of the Foundation may be briefly summarized as follows: 

1. Investigations necessary to supply accurate information 
concerning wild life, its present and former status, its relations 
to man and studies of the factors to be considered in relation to 
saving and increasing valuable species threatened with extermi- 
nation. The Foundation would become a central point where 
conservationists of America and elsewhere could obtain needed 
information to work effectively and should act as a clearing 
house in promoting conservation. 

2. Educational work to inform the public of the importance 
and value of wild life should be undertaken through publica- 
tions and by promoting the activities of affiliating organizations 
and individuals. 

3. The building up of a conservation reference library and of 
great information files including maps and other data which 
would be unique and of the utmost value in connection with 
making the Foundation useful to the national and state gov- 
ernments and communities in solving the constantly increasing 
and perplexing questions arising in connection with their conser- 
vation activities. 



22 Conservation of Wild Life 

4. The allotment of funds to be expended under the general 
supervision of the Director for the direct protection and in- 
crease of wild life in carrying out the object of the Foundation. 
As a boy, Colonel Roosevelt was a student of birds and seri- 
ously contemplated becoming a professional ornithologist. 
Later he became an ardent big game hunter and in time an ex- 
plorer of remote regions, always imbued with and led by his 
intense love and sympathy for wild life. 

When President he began the establishment of Federal bird 
and game refuges, one of the most notable and effective achieve- 
ments for the conservation of our birds and mammals. His 
delight in wild things of the forest and plain and his intimate 
association and fellowship with naturalists, big game hunters and 
others interested in wild life have been well known for years. 
Such an institution as the proposed foundation is urgently 
needed. Most well informed people now appreciate the value 
and importance of wild life and the need for its conservation. 
The perpetuation of our bird life is essential to successful agri- 
culture and forest growth, and the perpetuation of wild game 
is an insurance for the opportunity of healthful out-of-door activ- 
ities, such as those which transformed Colonel Roosevelt from 
weakly youth to the magnificent physique which all admired. 
The growth of population in all parts of the world and espe- 
cially in America is seriously endangering the future of our wild 
life and presents an opportunity that has few parallels for real 
service to mankind by a Foundation such as here suggested. 
The institution would be unique and would quickly become of 
world-wide influence. 

George Shiras, 3d., 
E. W. Nelson, 

Chief, Bureau Biological Survey, 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
John B. Burnham, 

President American Game Protective Assn. 
Charles Sheldon. 



A S e as id c P a r k at O y s t c r Ji a y 2> 

111. 

A Seaside Park at Oyster Bay 

A seaside park containing an athletic field, bathing beach, 
and a forum for public discussions, has been decided upon 
by the Oyster Bay Memorial Association of Oyster Bay, 
Inc., as a memorial to "Neighbor" Theodore Roosevelt, as he 
was known to his fellow-citizens the thirty years or more he 
lived on Sagamore Hill. Such a memorial would be both ol 
an enduring character, and one which would mark the domi- 
nant ideas of the man himself, his love of the American people, 
and his life-long interest in their welfare. 

Oyster Bay was the place of his home and most cherished 
affections. No other place is so fitting for a memorial from 
which the example of courage and patriotism contributed by 
his life may continue to radiate as an inspiration to genera- 
tions of Americans to come. The Association plans to obtain 
a section of land in Oyster Bay, comprising about thirt 
acres, under the name of Roosevelt Park, to be dedicated to 
the American people to whose honor and betterment he had de- 
voted his life. In such a park, in addition to the athletic field, 
would be a permanent monument in bronze or stone, and also 
a monument erected in memory of his youngest son, Lieutenant 
Quentin Roosevelt, who was killed while battling with a 
German airman. 

During his lifetime, Colonel Roosevelt himself expressed the 
wish that such a park might be created and urged the citizens to 
consider the matter at a town meeting six years ago. The scope 
of the plan would necessitate a substantial fund. 

Roosevelt Memorial Association of Oyster Bay, Inc. 

William Loeb, Jr., President. 

Acosta Nichols, Secretary. 

Mortimer L. Schiff, Treasurer. 



24 A Cemetery in France 



IV. 



A Cemetery in France 

We have, I understand, some 55,000 men buried in France, 
our boys who gave their lives in the conflict just ended, among 
them Colonel Roosevelt's youngest son, of whom he said: 

"He flew the air like an eagle, and like an eagle he died," 
and for whom he had already requested permanent burial there. 

I propose that we write the name of Theodore Roosevelt 
with the names of our fallen heroes in a permanent burial 
place on French soil, to be known as the Theodore Roosevelt 
Memorial Cemetery. 

Agnes Shufeldt. 



Belleau Wood, which has already been called by the French 
"The Wood of the Marines," to be made the final resting place 
of the bodies of the American dead whose families prefer to 
have them remain where they fell in France; and to be called 
the Roosevelt Memorial Cemetery. Suitable architecture and 
landscape treatment of this historic piece of ground would give 
it the dignity and sanctity of a memorial worthy of Colonel 
Roosevelt and of those who are to be buried there. 

Concerning the feasibility of this plan, John C. Greenway, 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 101st Infantry, writes: 

"I am very familiar with the ground in the vicinity of Bel- 
leau Bois. The area included in the memorial park should be 
that bounded on the north by the Torcy-Belleau-Boresches 
Road, on the east by the Ravine Robert, on the south by a line 
running east and west through the northern outskirts of Lucy 
de Bocage, and on the west by a line running north and south 
through the west limits of Torcy. This park would encompass, 




Copyright, 19tfl. by Sanmc! Parsons 



A Cemetery in France 25 

I should imagine, about five hundred acres. It can be reached 
in about two and a half hours' drive by motor from Paris." 

Hon. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Congressman from New York, 
writes : 

"I heartily approve of the plan to acquire Belleau Wood 
as a memorial to the Great American. I do not think it would 
be advisable to introduce a bill during the last few days of this 
Congress, but if the Committee will study the matter and give 
me details, I will be glad to introduce such a bill at the very be- 
ginning of the Sixty-sixth Congress." 

Lawrence F. Abbott, 
Lyman Abbott, 
Richard Washburn Child, 
Arthur F. Cosby, 
John Mitchell, 
Samuel Parsons, 
W. F. Purdy, 
Cushing Stetson. 



26 General Educational Projects 

V. 
General Educational Projects 

To perpetuate in living ways the character and principles of 
the great American, no memorial could do more than Roose- 
velt scholarships established in schools and colleges throughout 
the country. 

These scholarships should be of such variety that they would 
meet all needs, from four-year scholarships in college to six 
months' training in stenography, plumbing, agriculture, etc. 
The details could be worked out by the schools themselves, co- 
operating with educational authorities and vocational advisers. 
It should be possible to use much of the excellent machinery 
that has been employed during the last four years for emer- 
gency training courses. 

Eugenia Wallace, 
V ocational and Employment Director, Central Branch 
Young Women's Christian Association of New York 
City. 



I would have as a memorial Roosevelt scholarships to be 
awarded to young men not merely for academic excellence, but 
for qualities of personality and character which give promise 
that their holders will take their places worthily in the struggle 
for civic righteousness. Mr. Roosevelt's greatest gift to his 
country was his own rare personality. What better memorial, 
therefore, could he have than one which shall enrich and ener- 
gize the personalities of young men, and which shall inspire 
them to serve their age with something of his own courageous 
spirit ? 

Katherine F. Belsher, 
Department of History, Barringer High School. 
Newark, N. J. 



Gene r a I K d u c a 1 i rial Projects 27 

The Chicago Health Department Food Inspector's Associa- 
tion in meeting assembled passed resolutions respectfully recom- 
mending "Schools of Forestry, Agriculture and Domestic Sci- 
ence" to be erected in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, suggesting 
that in such schools daily opening exercises be held, teaching 
the Theodore Roosevelt ideal of definite nationalism under one 
flag, the Stars and Stripes. 

There is no reason why each county in the country should 
not have such a school. If Theodore Roosevelt could have a 
voice in the matter he would surely be in favor of a plan that 
stands for the development of "Brawn and Brains." 
For the Committee : 

J. C. Krueger, Chairman 
Z. L. Blaisdell 
Harry Halbisch 
Chas. L. Ertsman 
Peter G. Larsen 
John H. Weaver. 



A Roosevelt Memorial Temple of Education! This Temple 
to be dedicated to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt, conse- 
crated to the promotion of universal education and donated to 
the Federal Government for use as the Administrative Offices 
of Federal Activities in Public Education. In its artistic and 
architectural designs it should be the most beautiful building 
on this continent. It should be erected at a cost of not less than 
$10,000,000 within the next ten years, on the most beautiful 
site available in the City of Washington, District of Columbia. 
The funds with which to erect this memorial should be ob- 
tained by popular subscriptions in ten equal annual payments, 
as this would be about as fast as they could be put to proper 
use. On this plan I believe the teachers of the United States 
would subscribe $5,000,000; for the highest tribute ever paid 
the teachers of this nation was by Roosevelt himself in his 



28 General Educational P r oj e c t s 

memorable address at the National Education Association, in 
1905, when he said that the characteristic work of the Republic 
is that done by the teachers; that if the teachers were to fail 
to do their work well the Republic would not outlast the span 
of a generation, that the teachers render an almost unbelievable 
service and make the whole world their debtor. 

A National Association should be authorized by Act of Con- 
gress for this purpose. 

J. L. McBrien, 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 



America is essentially a country of industry and commerce. 
Roosevelt, above all else, knew and understood this great fact, 
and through all his career aimed chiefly to make better the 
conditions under which progressive industry and honest com- 
merce could flourish. He strove, from his first political victory 
in the New York Legislature to his last appeal for one hundred 
per cent Americanism, to make everything American the best 
possible. 

I suggest innumerable scholarships for the education of in- 
numerable Americans in all industrial arts, these industrial 
scholarships to be established for printers, silversmiths, carvers, 
lithographers, book-binders, furniture makers, jewelers, toy- 
makers, textile designers, ceramic designers, carpet weavers, etc., 
in fact, for nearly every industry throughout the country. Be- 
yond this, scholarships could be established for civic, oratorical, 
and rhetorical education among the industrial workers of 
America. 

I suggest further the following: 

1. Each city and town to collect its own funds, upon which 
scholarships in that town can be founded. 

2. A portion of each capital fund so collected to be turned 
over to the head committee in New York City for the estab- 



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lishment of The Industrial Art Schools of New York, to be 
called, The Roosevelt Memorial. 

3. A system of scholarships to be minutely worked out, 
whereby any intelligent, ambitious, industrious American boy 
or girl will be eligible. 

4. The successful candidates for scholarships, if necessary, 
to be given sufficient money for maintenance, travel, clothes, etc. 

5. A movement to be started in all the lower schools 
throughout the United States to make known to young Ameri- 
cans the opportunity that is there for them — to stimulate and 
encourage industry and ambition. 

6. Some process of elimination to be established whereby 
the winner of a scholarship is still in competition with other 
successful students, and, should his progress not warrant the 
continuation of it, that it can be transferred to some more 
deserving student. On the other hand, should any scholar 
show great promise or talent, that the scholarship be so elastic 
that it can carry its winner to the highest point of proficiency. 

Annette Sterner Pascal. 



The last recommendation and the most elaborate in Wash- 
ington's first annual message to Congress was on behalf of edu- 
cation. It urged the foundation of a national university, which, 
as Senator Lodge says in his "Life of Washington," he had very 
much at heart and to which he constantly returned. The na- 
tional university has never advanced beyond the recommenda- 
tion of the first President. 

What more appropriate, more living monument could be 
erected to our dead heroes than a national house of learning 
in our national capital, where could be preserved and propagated 
the ideals which they died to keep alive? Here could come the 
great from every nation bearing the torches of the new civiliza- 
tion which the free peoples of the earth have with their lifeblood 
ushered into the world. Here could the vouth of the land be 



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trained in all the arts of good citizenship. Here could be taught 
in untainted, unhyphenated form a sterling Americanism. 

In loving memory of the greatest of our war heroes let the 
hall of learning be called The Roosevelt National University. 
Nothing would so please him as to be considered one of those 
who died for his country — fighting. 

The memorial would be threefold in scope. It would be a 
memorial to Washington, who first realized the need of a pure, 
unentangled Americanism. It would be a memorial to Theo- 
dore Roosevelt, who in the great crisis was the first to see the 
peril lurking in the path of our Americanism — what we had 
of it in 191-1 — and to preach with his whole soul against the 
menace. It would be a memorial to our brave boys who died 
across the seas that the ideals for which Americanism stands 
might yet live. 

Arthur H. Bone. 



If Mr. Roosevelt's ideals are to be kept before the American 
people it would seem to be necessary to translate his personal 
powers as a leader into a social machinery of leadership based 
upon definite psychological principles. 

Such principles can be found in the philosophy of example 
formulated by Gabriel Tarde. All human progress depends 
upon the dissemination of definite ideas, and the rate of progress 
depends entirely upon the manner in which a given idea reaches 
the mass of the people. Fatal mistakes can be made by sending 
out an idea from a center without "prestige" or by giving it an 
unsuitable place in a sequence of ideas. 

A conspicuous center of leadership should be established in 
New York from which all the intellectual and moral resources 
of the nation can be organized in a unified scheme, the churches 
being used as local centers throughout the country and the pulpit 
enlisted in the dissemination of a carefully planned series of 
ideas. No new courses of lectures are needed; no scholarships; 



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but a certain kind of efficiency classes can be made very useful. 

We have organized our military resources. We have or- 
ganized our industrial resources. We have never made the 
least attempt to organize our intellectual and moral resources, 
which are back of everything else; and until this is done there 
seems little hope of checking the advance of Socialism. 

There are two causes or springs of human action : 

1. The influence of education. 

2. The compulsion of government. 

Today we are feverishly organizing the powers of compulsion 
and throwing all strength into the hands of government. We 
entirely forget that back of all government must be the influence 
of education, and that the more education we have the less 
government we need. Mr. Roosevelt never tired of urging the 
need of individual development. 

Social unrest will never be checked until we cease to put the 
cart before the horse, change the result by reversing the process, 
and so organize the powers of education — all the influences of 
daily life — that wrongs can be righted without universal re- 
course to the socialistic powers of governmental compulsion. 

E. C. Curtis. 



The Eugenics Research Association respectfully memorializes 
the Roosevelt Permanent Memorial National Committee 
earnestly to consider the appropriateness and feasibility of estab- 
lishing the proposed permanent Roosevelt Memorial in Roose- 
velt's own voting precinct in the town of Oyster Bay, in the 
form of the Roosevelt Institute of American Family Life, to 
be developed in connection with the Eugenics Record Office 
of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which owns eighty 
acres of land in Roosevelt's own voting precinct and has already 
laid the foundation for the study of the factors controlling 
American family life. This memorial institute would strive 



32 General Educational Projects 

to advance those ideals of responsible and patriotic parenthood 
as opposed to economic ease without parenthood, for which 
patriotic responsibility Theodore Roosevelt so valiantly battled. 
We respectfully call your attention to the following factors 
which contribute to the fitness of this suggestion: 

1. The Roosevelt Memorial should be something of per- 
manent and dynamic value to the American people. 

2. It should, like the man in whose memory it is built, 
battle for the advancement of the eugenical ideal in American 
family life as opposed to economic ease without family re- 
sponsibilities. 

3. The memorial should be located in Roosevelt's own 
neighborhood, in the vicinity of Sagamore Hill, to which shrine 
pilgrimages will be made for all time to come. 

4. The safety of the foundation fund could be absolutely 
secured by placing it as a trust with the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington, which has already taken over the Eugenics Record 
Office located in Theodore Roosevelt's own neighborhood. 
Funds entrusted to this institution would be assured proper 
use in exact accordance with their donor's wishes. 

5. Its proximity to New York City makes the Oyster Bay 
neighborhood an exceptionally fitting place for the location of 
an institute devoted to the advancement of Roosevelt's ideas 
of racial vigor because: 

(a) Within 200 miles of Oyster Bay 20 per cent of the 
population of the United States reside. Among these residents 
there exists a great conflict between the desire for economic 
ease and the call to responsible parenthood. 

(b) Facilities for social and economic research and pedigree 
investigation are at hand ; in Oyster Bay town — The Eugenics 
Record Office, and in New York City — the great libraries, and 
the headquarters of many social research institutions of national 
scope. 

Eugenics Research Association. 



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The following resolutions were unanimously passed at the 
annual meeting and banquet of the Merchants' Protective Asso- 
ciation of Titusville, Pa., Tuesday evening, January 30, 1919: 

"Resolved, that the Merchants' Protective Association of 
Titusville, Pa., most heartily approve of a contemplated popular 
memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, by the whole nation, and that 
this memorial shall be of an educational nature, perpetuating 
to coming generations his example of all that is good and noble 
in American citizenship." 

Merchants Protective Association. 



34 Agricultural 



Agricultural Endowment Fund 

One hundred and twenty-five families, healthy, strong and 
eager to till the soil and own their own farm homes, to be 
selected and provision made for all their needs — shelter, food, 
clothing, education, social privileges and pleasures — until their 
labor, under the direction of their teachers, had paid the debt 
incurred by the undertaking. Farms to be 150 acres if not 
irrigated, 80 if irrigated. 

Each department of the community to have for its manager 
the most competent man to be found, regardless of cost; these 
instructors and managers to be a farm manager, a dairy super- 
intendent, a swine director, a shepherd, a poultry chief, and 
a teacher of domestic science, in addition to such other teachers 
as might be necessary for the proper general education of the 
community, nothing to remain unprovided which may be neces- 
sary for the living of happy, successful, and well-rounded lives. 

In ten years at the longest these people would own their 
farms, fully paid for, with all the improvements. They could 
then decide whether they would continue as a community, with 
all its advantages, or each take his individual holdings and go 
his own way. These men would sign a contract with the 
holding company, who would guard the rights of the Govern- 
ment, the State, and the Memorial Association that furnished 
the money; the land which they farm to be theirs when the 
debt was paid. If dissatisfied, families would be permitted to 
leave the colony at any time, but would have no claim for fur- 
ther pay. What they had would have paid for their labor. If 
they saw it through they each would have possessions worth not 
less than $25,000. 

The expenses would amount to $250,000 a year; receipts 



Agricultural 35 

over $800,000; initial endowment, $2,000,000. I propose to 
make this community so satisfactory to its people and so profit- 
able that when the object lesson, which one colony will give, 
is furnished, every government, national and state, all over the 
world will immediately adopt it. 

H. D. Watson. 



36 Monuments 

VII. 

Monuments 

A bronze lion set on a granite pedestal in some wild spot in 
Rock Creek Park. 

Anonymous. 



Won't you please let the New York schoolboys build a 
statue of Teddy the Rough Rider at Broadway and 17th St. 
like the one of Washington at 4th Ave. and 14th Street? 

Anonymous. 



If Roosevelt's birthplace were purchased and a collection of 
all his works — speeches, etc., everything pertaining to his life — 
were gathered there and left open to the public, that would be a 
fitting memorial to America's greatest citizen. 

Mrs. I. R. Kimball. 



A monument, not pretentious but absolutely worthy, which 
shall stand where the boys and young manhood of New York 
and the visitors from all over the world shall gain inspiration 
for personal and political manhood in the days to come, a 
monument in bronze, simple like the man himself, yet forceful 
as he was. 

Edward F. Stevens. 



The memory of "the world's greatest citizen" should be 
preserved not by one huge memorial piece in one place, but by 



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several great statues scattered throughout America, say at San 
Francisco, New Orleans, St. Paul, St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, 
Philadelphia, New York, and by all means at Washington, 
D. C. 

He should be shown as "Roosevelt the American." Show 
him as the man of the people. Show him as nearly as possible 
as the average American saw him and knew him. It might 
be well enough to somewhat diversify the statues, but I believe 
a uniform continuity in the statues would be as well, if not 
better. It will better rivet the picture. 

Frank G. Curtis. 



An equestrian figure on a mountain silhouetted against the 
sky. 

He loved the great outdoors. He loved his horse. He loved 
his men, the Rough Riders, comprising as they did the men of 
the plain, of the ranch and of the army service! 

The place: The Hudson Palisades, at some noble and fitting 
spot. The time: The period of the Spanish War. The man: 
Theodore Roosevelt, surrounded by his comrades in their pic- 
turesque uniforms and accoutrements and other fitting subjects 
worthy the best thoughts of artists and judges who can be 
found, to assure the proper conceiving and completing of a 
monument that, like the Pyramid and Sphinx, will live as 

long as time. 

Robert H. Love. 



Theodore Roosevelt never flinched when it came to standing 
up and being counted in behalf of the principles of justice, fair 
play and square dealing — to friend or foe alike — at all times. 
This being the fact, let symbols of these principles be grouped 
in some manner around a statue of Roosevelt to show what 
he stood for in life and to keep it constantly before the people. 



38 Monuments 

Such memorials could be placed in Boston, New York, Phila- 
delphia, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San 
Francisco, New Orleans, St. Louis and all other large cities 
at not a very great cost to each. 

Frederic G. W. Sigrist. 



A People's Palace which would bear the name of The Theo- 
dore Roosevelt Forum. To my mind, Madison Square Garden 
would be an ideal location for this edifice. The main feature 
of this building would of course be the auditorium, seating 
thousands and affording those in moderate circumstances and 
the poor to benefit by giving of concerts, lectures and other 
forms of entertainment, which would tend to educate and ele- 
vate them. Rooms in the building could be utilized for various 
educational purposes. 

Wm. M. Schnitzer. 



The greatest memorial that can be raised to Theodore Roose- 
velt is the carrying into effect of his ideals of Americanism. 
Any memorial of bronze and stone must, to be worth while, 
be a symbol of this truth. 

I therefore propose that there be erected a Roosevelt gateway 
to the New World somewhere in New York, preferably at 
Battery Park or on Riverside Drive. This gateway might 
well take the form of a landing stage or artificial harbor, 
through which both the humblest immigrant as well as those 
the nation delights to honor might come to America. 

Back of this landing stage might be built a monumental 
approach, telling by bas-reliefs and sculptured forms of the 
history and ideals for which America stands. In its center 
might stand a great fountain to symbolize the Mississippi, the 
river that divides and yet unites the East and the West. The 
waters of the fountain, flowing into the Bay, might serve as 



Monuments 39 

a dividing line to mark the twin landing places of the Pacific 
and the Atlantic; thus the whole monument would stand as a 
symbol, not only of the historical but the geographical America 
to which Theodore Roosevelt gave his devoted life. 

Such a monument would be more than a mere creation of 
bronze and marble, it would be a living witness of those ideals 
of Americanism which found their highest expression in the one 
American who spoke with the voice of both the East and 
the West. 

Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer. 



A monumental all-bronze book of forty pages, each 4 feet by 
6 feet, perfectly proportioned, sculptured in low relief and set 
on a pedestal. 

The forty notable phases or events of Mr. Roosevelt's career 
to be arranged in order, and illustrations and borders designed 
for each page, with complete yet concise bronze-lettered bio- 
graphical matter to cover two-thirds the surface of each page. 

The forty best sculptors in America each to be commissioned 
to model a page with border; all to harmonize. 

The result would be typically American, like the subject — 
a book for a book maker — a true memorial to inspire posterity 
with an actual, interesting message. 

Replicas could be cast from the moulds for the libraries 
or parks of various cities and every school class would be taken 
once at least to turn and read the never to be forgotten pages. 

As a people of high ideals and tall buildings, let us set the 
books in towering pure white campaniles with a clock, chimes 
and a great pipe organ for a public shrine of Americanism and 
song, and a landmark for aviators. 

Robert C. Lafferty. 



I do not see that any adequate memorial to Roosevelt has 
yet been proposed, or is likely to be undertaken. There is 



40 Monuments 

room for a great artist to conceive such a memorial. There 
is one phase of his character and history that suggests it: 
Fighter that he was, and preacher of the gospel of preparedness, 
he yet achieved more for peace than any man in the world 
during his time, or perhaps in any time. What one man ever 
before through his personal character and efforts composed 
such a war as that between Russia and Japan? This feat 
Roosevelt did. No other man in the world at that time could 
have done it. And it was not merely because he was the head 
of a great people, but because he spoke with such personal 
weight and authority. It was also mainly through his efforts 
— he wrote a personal letter to the Kaiser — that France and 
Germany did not draw swords over the Morocco affair. These 
are some of the reasons why his memory should be celebrated 
and perpetuated by a peace monument — a figure or a group of 
figures, of heroic size, or more than heroic size, erected in 
Washington and dedicated to his memory. 

John Burroughs. 



A Roosevelt Acropolis of American History, to be situated 
either at Lake Champlain or at Valley Forge, preferably on the 
slopes of the hill that rises from the Schuylkill, amid the 
shadowy lines of the redoubts of the Continental Army, the 
memorial huts, and Washington's headquarters. In the chapel 
at Valley Forge are the bays of the thirteen original States. 
In this temple would be the Halls of the forty-eight States of 
today. Thus the present nation, sublime in its power, typified 
in Theodore Roosevelt, would look down in reverence on the 
ground where the United States was really created, the very 
soil where George Washington held together divers elements 
that struggled through confusion to unity. 

The Roosevelt Memorial at Valley Forge should be a labor- 
atory of United States History. It should contain a Hall for 
convention purposes, equipped with picture-projection machines. 



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Copyright, 1910. by Robert ('. Lafferty 



Monuments 



41 



In this Hall would be shown, from time to time, material 
vividly illustrating phases of the History of the Nation, and 
this material in replica? would be distributed throughout the 
United States, to community centers, for use in translating to 
the collective mind of the people the great story of our de- 
velopment. 

Samuel Abbott. 




A Monumental Bronze Book (See page 39) 



I propose a monument that will be strictly and in every sense 
a monument, and a monument worthy of the greatness of its 
object. I am strongly opposed to the idea that, like a Christ- 



42 Monuments 

mas present of socks and suspenders, it must be "something 
useful." This nation is not so poor that we need to build 
"something" while Ave try to fool ourselves into thinking that 
it is a real monument. Let us not erect a headstone suitable 
to crack nuts upon, nor a "memorial" to do duty as a fire-signal 
tower. 

Give us no utilitarian buildings of any kind! Let the 
memorial be anything else than a highway or a bridge. The 
ghastly joke of the Lincoln Highway for the convenience of 
automobilists, is quite enough of that sort of thing. 

Does anyone object to the expenditure of money for a monu- 
ment that can not be "used" all the year round? If so, I ask 
him to turn to Holy Writ and read St. Matthew xxvi, 6-12, 
about "the box of precious ointment" that the Woman of 
Bethany bestowed upon the Lord in token of her reverent love, 
and was rebuked by the disciples for the waste of good ma- 
terial. The disciples were taught a lesson in proportion that 
should not now be lost in the selection of a design for a Roose- 
velt monument. 

I propose, as the expression of the American people, a real 
monument, the most beautiful and grand ever erected by the 
hands of man. On the highest hill in Central Park, New York, 
the metropolis of the Western hemisphere and the birthplace of 
Theodore Roosevelt, let there be erected a white marble and 
bronze monument, 550 feet high and 60 feet in diameter, a 
fluted column, with a capital of bronze surmounted by a colos- 
sal figure of Liberty. On the four-sided base of bronze, let 
there be placed four groups of statuary, in bronze, to typify 
Roosevelt's activities and influences as a statesman, soldier, 
hunter-naturalist and citizen. 

The white marble shaft would typify the purity of Roose- 
velt's ideals and his life. The bronze, in striking contrast, 
would represent the permanence of his achievements for man- 
kind, his fame, and the love that mankind bears toward his 
memory. William T. Hornaday, 

Director, Nezv York Zoological Park. 



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The great spirit of Theodore Roosevelt, an inspiration to 
naturalists, bird-lovers, conservationists and sportsmen, today 
rests upon the nation like a mighty benediction. Men of the 
open loved him and the faces about his campfire, whether 
black or yellow, white or copper, bent their gaze upon him with 
that respect and affection which men of towering nobility have 
ever inspired. 

He was a scientific collector of birds in his youth and in man- 
hood sought the fiercest animals of the jungle and brought 
his trophies to museums where the public might look upon them 
and learn. As President he established the principle of gov- 
ernment bird-reservations, and created thirty-eight of these 
national wild-life sanctuaries. He awoke the nation to the 
need of saving its forests and other natural resources. 

He taught and practiced clean, straight sportsmanship with 
a power that has caused thousands of men afield to walk in 
straighter paths. 

He discussed questions understanding^ with our greatest 
technical naturalists and at the same time was president of the 
Long Island Bird Club that feeds the wild birds in winter 
and teaches little children to love them. 

The man or woman who is wedded to the open knows these 
facts and many others. It is because of this knowledge and 
of a desire to give some tangible expression of esteem in which 
his memory is held that the plan has been formed to erect at 
some appropriate spot a memorial that speaks of the wild bird- 
life in which he was so deeply interested. 

The National Association of Audubon Societies and affiliated 
organizations of various kinds throughout the United States, 
therefore, call upon the friends of their great fallen leader to 
erect a Roosevelt Memorial Fountain. 

The possibilities of such a work of art are boundless and in 
the hands of some great American sculptor there can be wrought 
a fountain of such beauty and appropriateness that it will 
become one of the land-marks of our country; and ever serve 
as a reminder of the great American Nature Lover. 



44 Monuments 

A National Committee co-operating with the officers and 
directors of the Association has been formed to aid in the 
collection of funds and in the ultimate selection of a proper 
work of art. 

National Association of Audubon Societies, 
William Dutch er, President, 
T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary, 
Jonathan Dwight, Treasurer. 



An arc h composed of the square and the triangle forms. The 
central, dominating idea, the power of the inspiration of the 
ideal, the development of humanity from the cave man on 
through the succeeding degrees of enlightenment up to the 
highest now known, with the bright light of idealism still lead- 
ing humanity ever upwards toward yet greater ideals. 

The base of the arch, rising out of the earth itself, sur- 
rounded by the rough rocks, with clustering trees, shrubs and 
vines, symbolizes the lowly beginning of man. Out of this de- 
velops the simple, strong structure which is to support the more 
highly developed forms of ideality. 

The rough forms of ornamentation on the sides leading up 
to and encircling the globe, symbolize the great stream of Life, 
through which the human being struggles, striving toward the 
ideal as typified by the topmost figure reaching upward toward 
the light above, held on the tips of the fingers. 

On the four squares just below the globe, supporting the top 
figure, to stand four groups to typify four great epochs in 
human history. 

Upon the smooth face of the arch, to be carved, in hiero- 
glyphic style, the story of humanity's struggles and achieve- 
ments and hopes for the future. 

The base of the arch to be built of re-inforced cement faced 
with suitable stone. The upper portions to be of granite; the 
topmost figure, surmounting the arch, to be of bronze. 



Monuments 



45 



The triangular form of the arch is an adaptation from the 
ancient Mayan architecture found in the buried cities of Cen- 
tral America. Gerald Cassidy, 

Sculptor. 




Copyriglxt, 1919, by Gerald Cassidy 

At a meeting of the P. E. O. Sisterhood, Chapter A, High- 
land, Ulster County, New York, on Thursday, February 20, 
1919, it was unanimously voted that the women of New York 
State erect a suitable monument to perpetuate the memory of 
Theodore Roosevelt ; and that no more fitting memorial could 
be erected than an equestrian statue of Roosevelt suggested by 
Mr. Darling's drawing, "The Long, Long Trail," surrounded 
by his Rough Riders in their uniforms. This to be erected at 
some quiet spot along the Palisades of the Hudson. 

Jennie H. Rose, 
Secretary pro tern, P. E. O. 



46 Monuments 

To secure a plot or park in the city of Washington and in 
the center erect a memorial as follows: A light colored granite 
structure 300 feet square with broad steps, at least eighteen 
inches wide, and to have at least thirty of them running up 
to the main floor. Standing a suitable distance from the steps 
six dark granite pillars on each side, polished, about 70 feet 
in height and in circumference about 25 feet ; these to be similar 
to those in the Episcopal Cathedral in New York. From the 
top of the steps to the main structure inside the pillars a walk 
about 40 feet in width. Inside the edifice to be similar to the 
tomb of Napoleon at Paris, with beautiful crypt in center ; 
the rail around it to be of Tennessee polished marble, with 
a top of some dark or black highly polished marble. The whole 
to be lighted from the top. Around the sides inside to have 
glass cases in which would be displayed all the telegrams and 
messages of condolence sent from all over the world. Over 
the main entrance the figure of Justice, with the scales, repre- 
sentative of the Square Deal. On one side on the outside 
of the building the "Long, Long Trail" in bronze. On the 
opposite side the plan of the Panama Canal, also in bronze. 
At the four corners of the foundation or steps, bronze figures 
of the Army, another corner the Navy, the others the Red 
Cross and one representing Faith, Hope and Charity. On top 
of the dome an immense eagle with outstretched wings. 

Anonymous. 



Newspapers 47 

VIII. 
Newspapers 

The best Memorial to Roosevelt will be a splendid news- 
paper published in Washington in a building especially designed 
for its work. 

A newspaper of his liking free and open for the discussing 
of the great Human Problems which Come up from time to 
time. 

Roosevelt was a born genius of the pen, and there was nothing 
in his life he enjoyed so much, as publicity and the chance to 
impress his ideas and ideals upon the world. 

F. Edwin Elwell. 

A daily or weekly paper to be called "America and the 
Square Deal, A Living Memorial to Theodore Roosevelt," and 
to be edited by men who shall speak as Roosevelt would speak 
on international, national, social, industrial, religious, political, 
family, and other questions — men who will emphasize, as he 
would, Americanism ; a paper that shall be unique in the field 
of literature, at a price within the reach of all. Such a paper 
could be the medium through which necessary funds might 
be raised to place stone or bronze statues wherever they may 
be desired ; its revenue-raising features to make it self-support- 
ing, and its true Americanism to insure its permanency. Its 
subscription list would take in the human race. 

Colonel Roosevelt was a voice. "He being dead must yet 
speak." 

Samuel Heagan Jordan. 

The memorial to Mr. Roosevelt should take the form of 
the press, of a special press, a press that shall hold perennially 



48 Newspapers 

aloft the torch of American ideals and, more than that, keep it 
daily burning. 

A syndicate could establish such a daily paper in every state 
at once. Such a start could be made the nucleus of the distribu- 
tion in every hamlet of a daily paper that would be popular, 
that would be free from both partisanship and moneyed in- 
fluence. Its columns could be thrown open for any sensible 
discussion, for elevating competitions, for anything that will 
get people to think intelligently. If we could secure some 
national agency that would help the individual to think on 
his own two feet and to express that thinking fearlessly but 
rationally, we might do much to avert this tremendous impul- 
sive slipping and sliding of huge unthinking groups. 

Grace Alden Beard Walker. 



Homes for Children 49 

IX. 

Homes for Children 

The erection and maintenance of one or more homes for 
children — to be called the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Home. 
These homes to be located in various large cities ; the funds for 
the purchase of real estate and erection of buildings to be raised 
by popular subscriptions of $1.00 each throughout the nation. 

E. T. Hall. 



Since the war is practically over and the problems of recon- 
struction are beginning, a fitting monument to our unfor- 
gettable Roosevelt would be a large house, possibly comprising 
an entire city block, in which mothers and fathers with de- 
pendent children can be housed, the parents helped to find em- 
ployment, and tided over in time of idleness, the children cared 
for during the day; to help keep families together and keep 
children and their parents from having to apply for charity. 
The institution could be made self-supporting, and these houses 
could be established not only over the United States, but all 
over the world. 

If anything would be better fitted to grow up a stock of 
good Americans, it is this — not to give charity to people but to 
keep them away from it, to give mothers and fathers a chance 
to work without anxiety while their children are off the streets, 
in good hands, away from bad and sometimes criminal influence. 

I hope you will give my humble proposition consideration. 
My name matters not — I am only a mother that knows what 
all this would mean to others, and to many war orphans, and 
how the heart of our great Roosevelt would be with this work 
of humanity. Anonymous. 



50 Hospitals 

X. 

Hospitals 

Could there be a better national memorial to Colonel Roose- 
velt than a home, preferably of the cottage colony type, for 
permanently disabled soldiers, located in or near Oyster Bay? 

Harriet Gaylord. 



If every community would raise endowments and establish 
a hospital or hospitals in their vicinity having rooms as well 
as endowments labelled after our ex-President no better monu- 
ment could be raised to a man who admired real but quiet 
appreciation. In this way his name would be commemorated 
in every part of this vast nation. 

E. A. Hall. 



Free municipal dental clinics in every public school, to give 
free dental service to the school children. 

The ravages of decayed teeth at an early age, as found in 
over 97 per cent of the school children, has been proved to so 
undermine the health of a great percentage of the adult in 
subsequent years, through systemic infection of various types, 
traceable to the teeth, as to defeat all efforts of treatment put 
forth by medical skill. 

Mr. Roosevelt himself was a victim of systemic infection, 
traceable to or resulting from diseased teeth. 

Millions of persons die from systemic infections of mys- 
terious origin. A very large percentage of these deaths are 



Hospitals 51 

directly caused by focal infections from diseased teeth, which 
seldom show any signs of local disturbance. 

Municipal dental clinics have been operated in various cities 
and the results have been marvelous, warranting the extension 
of similar clinics throughout the entire school system, as a 
memorial of the greatest value in honor of Mr. Roosevelt. 

M. M. Bluhm, D. D.S. 



52 Museums 

XI. 

Museums 

A permanent Museum in New York City, including a 
room devoted to everything that would be appropriate for 
Roosevelt, the Patriot and American — to be known as Room 
No. 1. A second room would cover Roosevelt the Scholar — 
with a complete library of his works. A third would be de- 
voted to Roosevelt the Naturalist, Explorer, Discoverer, 
Hunter, etc., abounding in pictures and any trophies that are 
appropriate. A fourth room might show Roosevelt the Citizen 
— a complete history of his life from boyhood — his homes — their 
character — (these also in picture) — his sports all through life, 
his chosen companions, etc. A fifth room might illustrate 
Roosevelt's interest in the various races of humanity and what 
he did for them. A sixth room might include the story of the 
Panama Canal, the necessity for it, the acquiring of the place, 
the building of it, etc. 

Caroline Kay Long. 



A Roosevelt Memorial Museum to contain books, papers, 
statues, pictures, trophies, a large auditorium, a publication de- 
partment and many other things. While there should be big 
game, yet it should be exhibited in a manner to bring out the 
fact that he did not kill for the love of killing, or blood lust, 
but as a clean sportsman-naturalist, and that he was truly the 
world's greatest protector of animal and bird life. 

In the auditorium there should be frequent lectures and 
speeches by men who knew him. The publication department 
would be the main feature, with its Roosevelt Museum Jour- 
nal and other publications and reprints. 



M u s e u m s S3 

Under its own management, the museum could be conducted 
as an independent organization, modeled after that of the large 
modern museums, and financed along lines which would give 
to all the privilege of contributing, and by sale of the Roose- 
velt Museum Journal and other publications, and by member- 
ship fees; or, it might be found advisable to erect and conduct 
this museum as an annex to some other museum. 

The truth about Roosevelt should be presented in a way to 
make his life an example to posterity, to lead men to better and 
cleaner lives, and to educate and uplift humanity. 

Russell J. Coles. 



54 Clubs 

XII. 
Clubs 

A" Roosevelt Dead-Game-Sport Club, with headquarters 
throughout the country and branches in the larger cities, a 
place in which full play would be given for the things that were 
dear to his heart and represented patriotic, manly activities; a 
place free from the mollycoddle and goody-goody boy idea; a 
place for sparring, tennis, bowling, gymnasium, etc., for lec- 
tures on practical politics, business and travel, with a library 
and lunch room. In most cases space would be devoted to 
Boy Scouts as Junior Members. It also might be possible to 
develop the appeal by such organizations as the Locomotive 
Engineers Roosevelt Club, the Carpenters Roosevelt Club, the 
Laborers Roosevelt Club, the Bankers Roosevelt Club, etc. 

Howard Constable. 



I suggest the establishment of clubs such as operated by the 
War Camp Community Service. 

As a member of the Club Department, New York Office, 
War Camp Community Service, it is a part of my duty to visit 
affiliated clubs and talk with the enlisted men. One evening 
it occurred to me to ask the men if they thought it would be 
to their advantage if some of the clubs were made permanent. 
The response was unanimous. The men were beginning to 
wonder what they would do after peace was signed. 

A composite statement covering comments made by several 
men follows: 

"Must we loaf about the streets, saloons and worse places? 
Before the war 6th Avenue and 14th Street was 'sailor's town.' 
The height of our ambition was to go into Tom Sharkey's 



Clubs 55 

saloon and look at the women. Now we don't go to this dis- 
trict — we prefer to stay in the cluhs. 

"The War Camp Community Service has done the most 
wonderful thing in the world in raising the morale of the sol- 
diers and sailors. We can go to these clubs and talk with decent 
women. 

"We want to keep hold of the friends we made during the 
war and if we had these clubs to go to we could do this." 

George J. Kneeland, 
New York War Camp Community Service. 



The organization of clubs throughout the country, to be 
known as "Disciples of Roosevelt" — whose aim and purpose 
would be to express and perpetuate what he thought and 
struggled for, since his early manhood, in making this govern- 
ment what it ought to be. 

Whether the future government is to be conducted by one of 
the existing dominant parties, or a new political organization 
under some other name, such clubs in cities, towns, villages and 
hamlets in all sections would exert a power for good that would 
make America a mecca of civilization. 

Charles K. Hammitt. 



56 Highways, Etc. 

XIII. 
Highways, Parks and Cities 

We have honored our great men by naming for them cities 
they did not build and states they did not found. I suggest 
that the Panama Canal be re-named after the man who built 
it, the Roosevelt Canal. 

Minnie J. Reynolds. 



An Atlantic to Pacific route, beginning at his home on the 
Sound, including Washington, the scene of so much of his 
official career, including, en route to his mother's home in the 
Southland, a pilgrimage to Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon, 
winding its way across the prairies and mountains of the West, 
and ending somewhere along the Pacific. 

Roosevelt College or hospital, or numberless parks and reser- 
vations, might well find congenial surroundings along such a 
highway, set with trees, bridges, community centers and bronze 
tablets, uniting the whole nation. 

Frederick L. Smith. 



Let the dunes of Indiana be made the National Roosevelt 
Memorial Park. One great national park ought to be near the 
center of population. The other national parks are in the 
Rockies, the Black Hills, and the Pacific coast mountains, all 
remote from the body of the people. 

This proposed dune park occupies a strip of land twenty-five 
miles long, and from one to three miles wide in northern 
Indiana, bordering Lake Michigan. 



Highways, Etc. 57 

The dune country is skirted by several of the great trunk 
lines of railroad and is accessible directly from Lake Michigan 
with an unoccupied beach twenty-five miles in length directly 
touching the dune country. 

It is one of the fortunate incidents in the development of 
the lake country that this dune region was, geologically speak- 
ing, so recently uncovered by the receding waters of the lake 
as to be primarily unattractive for either agricultural or man- 
ufacturing purposes, and so has been spared in a state of almost 
undisturbed natural beauty. It is one of the few sites in 
the world where nature's great process of continent building 
goes on so rapidly as to be visible to the unaided eye. 

The project is of the greatest permanent importance and 
value to the people on its merits. All the reasons for establish- 
ing any national park are cogent and convincing for establishing 
this park. It is of the utmost importance that this park be es- 
tablished now, before it is too late. 

Merritt Starr. 



A new avenue, parallel to Fifth Avenue, between Fifth 
Avenue and Sixth Avenue. Beginning at the Worth Monu- 
ment, at Twenty-fifth Street, and running north through 
Bryant Park to Central Park and widening out as it approaches 
the park, thereby forming an open square. Place in the center 
of this square an heroic equestrian statue of Colonel Roosevelt. 

M. M. W. 



The building of a model American city, the city of Roosevelt, 
to be located in the Middle West, convenient to a great water 
power, with good rail and, if possible, water connections. 

The city to be designed by wholly American talent under 
direction of committees of American artists, sculptors, architects, 



58 H i g hivay s , Et c . 

landscape gardeners, real estate developers and specialists in 
every line. 

In the center of the city a large space to be reserved for the 
monument proper (described later). 

Surrounding the monument should stand the municipal build- 
ings and museums of the things that Roosevelt loved, both in 
American history and in natural history. 

Suitable locations to be set aside for: Public paries and play- 
grounds; Zoological grounds; Botanical gardens; Grounds for 
a university. Funds for endowment to be solicited later. 

Space also to be set aside for business and for factories with 
model housing conditions. 

The establishment of a municipal newspaper and magazine, 
"The Square Deal," with editorial pages open to all political 
parties, indorsing all of its accepted advertising. 

The development committee to arrange the sale of lots, with- 
holding certain choice ones and yet giving the early investors 
a chance to profit by their investment; no speculation to be 
allowed; the one aim to be the rapid growth of a great city, 
and only by following the life rule of its namesake, "The 
square deal for every one." 

The details of incorporation to be arranged by a committee 
of financiers, and the initial amount raised by the general sale 
of stock of small denominations and, possibly, underwritten 
by bonds. 

A typical American monument, and it would seem an appro- 
priate one, is the one used by the American Indian: the heap 
of stones, each stone brought by a friend and cast upon the 
pile. Many thousands would make the pilgrimage, and for a 
small fee could be given a certificate that they had contributed 
to the building of the real Roosevelt monument, which, as time 
went on, would reach impressive proportions. 

The small stones could be cemented into a growing pyramid 
or shaft, should that form be chosen. 

Charles Larned Robinson. 



Highways, Etc. 59 

If I could turn my love into action and my grief into gold 
I'd build for Theodore Roosevelt the kind of memorial that I 
know he would have liked and I'd call it the Happy Hunting 
Ground. 

First, I'd find out in what part of this country the most 
species of the best American trees grow best and live longest. 
Then I would secure in that part of the country a vast territory 
from which by folly and greed the original forest had been 
stripped. Then I would begin to plant. But mostly I'd plant 
our Eastern oak, the white oak, because in the strength and 
soundness and splendor of his life the man himself most re- 
sembled that tree. But I'd plant rare trees, too, from all over 
the country and from all over the world. I'd ask people who 
loved him to contribute to this forest little trees of the kind they 
loved the best, and I should see starting each upon its separate 
destiny millions and millions of trees, young, gay and brilliant. 
Yet each separate destiny would have a part in the destiny of 
the whole. Branch touches branch, the leaves fall, the forest 
floor is mulched and enriched, the leaders of the trees reach up- 
ward, higher and higher toward the light. So he reached up- 
ward ever higher and higher, and so because of him the nation 
began to look upward from the shame and lethargy into which 
it had been befooled, and to reach upward, too, toward the light. 

I'd call it the Happy Hunting Ground, because he was a 
mighty hunter and because that is just what it would be. The 
man who loves birds could hunt for them in this forest and 
watch them and study them ; so it would be with the man who 
loves trees, so with the flower lover and the lover of ferns. 
There would be bear and deer in the forest and fish in the 
streams. 

Forever and ever such a memorial would grow more gracious 
and more beautiful, more useful and more used, more enchant- 
ing and more haunted. 

No ready-made primeval forest would do me. There are 
things already created to remember him by — things that he 
created himself — the Panama Canal — the wish of a whole 



60 H i g hway s , Et c . 

people to be on the whole a little squarer and a little straighter 
than it had ever been before — lots of things. But the memorial 
which we ourselves must raise to him ought, I think, to be a 
creation of something good and beautiful, from the ground up. 

Statues get their ringers broken and their noses worn smooth ; 
fashions that seem beautiful to one generation seem preposterous 
to the next; true art is, indeed, based upon nature, but only 
Nature herself has the beauty which is eternal. 

I think he would like to be remembered forever and ever 
in a Happy Hunting Ground which was the creation of those 
who lived in the same age with him and who loved him, and 
which should become the care of the generations to whom he 
will be a symbol of the Republic — a myth, a fable, a romance 
and a fairy story, and, like Lincoln, a human and a God-fearing 
man. 

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. 



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XIV. 
Trees 

Colonel Roosevelt did more than any other man to awaken 
the public to the value of our forests and inland resources 
when he called the conference of governors in 1908. At that 
conference he said : "We must prepare against the advent of 
a woodless age." I propose that the people of the United 
States answer that call by planting memorial trees in Colonel 
Roosevelt's honor. 

Charles L. Pack. 



62 A National Holiday 

XV. 
A National Holiday 

One day in the year to be set apart as a National Roosevelt 
Memorial Holiday, preferably Mr. Roosevelt's birthday, the 
same as we have set aside Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, 
when the whole country will hold memorial services and set 
forth and preach the ideals and sturdy patriotism so bravely 
and unceasingly taught by Mr. Roosevelt. 

Cora G. Thompson. 



Theodore Roosevelt was a lover of the great outdoors, of 
nature, exercise and sports. I suggest that we take this as one 
of our reasons for making our memorial a universal service to 
mankind throughout the United States by having a Roosevelt 
Day. Disturb business as little as possible by appointing a 
Saturday in the summer. They are now quite generally half 
holidays throughout the country. This would make a per- 
petual memorial, with the opportunity for all of us to follow 
some of Theodore Roosevelt's teachings. The first Saturday 
in August, equidistant from Independence Day and Labor Day, 
or if labor should deem Theodore Roosevelt to have been suf- 
ficiently its champion to wish to do him an added honor, the 
Saturday before Labor Day could be made Roosevelt Day, 
giving three days in succession in the summer for recreation in 
the great outdoors. 

Karl B. Sackmann. 



List of Members 63 



Roosevelt Permanent Memorial National 
Committee 

Chairman: 

William Boyce Thompson 

Honorary Chairmen: 
William H. Taft 
Charles E. Hughes 

Vice-Chairmen : 

Henry Cabot Lodge 
John Mitchell 
A. T. Hert 
Hiram W. Johnson 
John T. King 

Treasurer: Albert H. Wiggin 
(Chase National Bank) 



MEMBERS 

Former Cabinet Members: 
Charles J. Bonaparte 
George B. Cortelyou 
Lyman J. Gage 
James R. Garfield 
Philander C. Knox 
Victor H. Metcalf 
Truman H. Newberry 
Elihu Root 
Leslie M. Shaw- 
Oscar S. Straus 
James Wilson 
Luke E. Wright 
Robert J. Wynne 

Army: Leonard Wood 
Navy: Robert E. Peary 



64 Lis t o f M e m b e rs 

Newspapers and Magazines: 

Lyman Abbott, "The Outlook" 
Irvin R. Kirkwood, "The Kansas City Star" 
Charles Scribner, "Scribner's Magazine" 
Henry J. Whigham, "Metropolitan Magazine" 

Business: 

Harold L. Ickes 
Albert D. Lasker 
William Loeb, Jr. 
John M. Parker 
George W. Perkins 
Gifford Pinchot 
Joseph O. Thompson 
Harry F. Sinclair 
Philip Stewart 
Augustus H. Vogel 
William Wrigley, Jr. 

Farm: 

Henry C. Wallace, "Wallaces' Farmer" 

Labor : 

(See John Mitchell, Vice-Chairman, listed elsewhere, and 
John I. Nolan, listed elsewhere.) 

Church : 

James Cardinal Gibbons 
William T. Manning 

Social Worker: 

Raymond Robins 

Education : 

A. Lawrence Lowell 

Letters : 

George Harvey 
William Dean Howells 

Art: John Sargent 

Music: Walter Damrosch 

Stage : David Warfield 



List of Members 65 

Women: 

Mrs. Whitclaw Re id 
Mrs. Frank A. Gibson 
Miss Harriet E. Vittum 

Naturalist: 

John Burroughs 

Big Game Hunters and Rough Riders: 
Carl E. Akeley 
Seth Bullock 
Russell Coles 
John C. Greenway 
W. W. Sewall 

Negro: Robert R. Moton 

Senators : 

Frank B. Kellogg 
William S. Kenyon 
Miles Poindexter 

Congressmen : 

Simeon D. Fess 
Clifton N. McArthur 
John I. Nolan 
Charles F. Reavis 
Wallace White 

Governors : 

Henry J. Allen, Kansas 
R. Livingston Beeckman, Rhode Island 
Thomas E. Campbell, Arizona 
James P. Goodrich, Indiana 

National Committeemen: 
Jacob L. Babler 
Willis C. Cook 
T. Coleman du Pont 
H. F. MacGregor 
William P. Jackson 
Earle S. Kinsley- 
Thomas A. Marlow 
H. L. Remmel 
Patrick Sullivan 
Charles B. Warren 



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